Sentence examples for a craving to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a craving to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong desire or longing for something specific.
Example: "She had a craving to travel the world and experience new cultures."
Alternatives: "a desire to" or "an urge to".

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There is always a craving to consecrate winners as deserving of their prize.

Indeed old people often report a craving to touch and be touched.

With an insistence that verges on hostility, he repeats that Tocqueville, despite a "craving" to seem original, was not.

We should never forget that it was a craving to impose "western values" on Iraq that caused this disaster.

Oskar Melzer, a German-Jewish club owner, and Paul Mogg, a Berlin-based D.J. from England, were inspired by a craving to create the restaurant.

Mr. Hendon's world is all tactics, scant policy and driven by all-consuming suspicions and a craving to bring home the pork.

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She dragged one friend along a beach in Sri Lanka in the early hours because she had a desperate craving to see a turtle laying eggs.

So the next time you get a mad craving to eat an entire bag of Oreos in one sitting, just blame it on your brain chemistry.

"Where's The Gap?" asked Jeff, who apparently had a sudden craving to buy himself a fresh denim jungle outfit.

When she was pregnant with Sasha, she'd had a weird craving to eat soil.

Readers of the Brontës have a natural craving to know what the authors looked like, as do Austenites.

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